Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parents and teachers often kill children's creativity by threatening them with failure, said Vincent Van Gogh, nephew of the Dutch artist of the same name...
...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...
...Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis, owns Maryland's most valuable private collection of paintings (Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh), and uses a luxuriously appointed houseboat as a writing hideaway (four published books on sailing, one unpubished novel...
...themes early in life: "Cezanne took apples. Monet took trees. I was born where there were no trees or apples-only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience, yes. Gauguin had an experience. But experience is not a passport to the company of Rembrandt." What is? "Genius...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Zenith International), the work of Alain Resnais, a 37-year-old director of documentary films (Van Gogh, Night and Fog), is the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave of Gallic moviemakers (TIME, Nov. 16). The picture won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival last spring and has been acclaimed in France as "a thousand films in one": an atomic horror movie, a pacifist tract, a Proustian exercise in recollection, a radioactive Romeo and Juliet. As a matter of fact, it is all these things and more-an intense, original and ambitious piece of cinema...